Santuário de Xucros Lyrics Translation in English

Assim começa um surungo mesclando fumaça e poeira

This is how a surungo begins, blending smoke and dust

Porta do quarto entupida e a mulherada em fileira

The bedroom door jammed, and the women in a row

Branca, morena e mulata, casada, viúva e solteira

White, brunette, and mulatto, married, widowed, and single

Loucas pra coçar o garrão num manquejar de vaneira

Crazy to scratch the itch in a limping vaneira

(E nisso se ouve um grito: Indiada vocês me ouça)

(And then a shout is heard: Folks, listen to me)

(Dá uma folguita pros velhos e saiam de riba das moça)

(Give the old folks a break and get away from the girls)

Feito de cinza e cupim o chão batido da sala

Made of ash and termite, the beaten floor of the room

Piso bom igual aquele granfino nenhum iguala

Good floor like that, no fine gentleman matches

Santuário da tradição da xucra raça baguala

Sanctuary of tradition, of the rugged and wild breed

Parede de pau-a-pique, quincha furada de bala

Wattle-and-daub wall, bullet-riddled thatch

E assim num torcer de queixo se guasqueia um contrapasso

And in a twist of the jaw, a counterstep is danced

Desses que torra a badana numa tarde de mormaço

One that toasts the skin on a hot and muggy afternoon

E o chinaredo se gruda igual pepino no baraço

And the crowd sticks together like a cucumber on the rope

Vão empurrando as paletas e retovando o espinhaço

They push the blades and twist their spines

E quando o zóio da Lua vem me bombear nesse rancho

And when the eye of the moon comes to spy on me in this ranch

Na cordeona duas falas numa vaneira eu remancho

In the accordion, two voices in a vaneira, I steer

Raiz de cerne pampeano, o qual no tronco eu me arrancho

Root of Pampas essence, to which I cling in the trunk

No lombo do verso xucro com capricho eu me esgancho

On the back of the rugged verse, with skill, I entangle myself

À meia-noite uma polca das damas pra o arremate

At midnight, a polka from the ladies for the finale

Pra ver quem gosta de quem e o verso faz o combate

To see who likes whom, and the verse engages in combat

Depois vão lá pra cozinha pra descansar o alcatre

Then they go to the kitchen to rest their backsides

Pra comer feijão mexido e guerrudo com chá de mate

To eat mixed beans and tough jerky with mate tea